St Marys House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1988. House.
St Marys House
- WRENN ID
- last-outpost-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 April 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- St Marys House, Drinkingstone Road, Gedding
- OS grid reference
- TL 952 580
- Coordinates
- 52.1865, 0.85464
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Mary's House is a house dating from around 1570, with an extension added in the early 18th century. It has two storeys and was originally built with a two-cell plan, to which a third cell was added on the right. The house features four windows and is constructed from timber framing with plaster. The roof is covered with plain tiles, and there is an axial early 17th-century chimney made of red brick with a sawtooth shaft, along with an 18th-century service chimney at the right-hand gable. The windows are mid-20th century leaded casements, and there is a mid-20th century plain-tiled porch.
The framing is fully exposed and unmoulded, with close-studding. The floor joists are unchamfered and laid flat. There are several blocked diamond-mullioned windows, one of which is now located on an internal wall in the parlour gable; this window was originally full width with seven-light sidelights and a larger central light. In the two-bay hall, there is a large cambered fireplace lintel that has been reused from a timber-framed chimney. A notable feature is an apparent cross-entry against the left-hand gable, with the rear doorway still remaining but blocked. There is no evidence that a service cell ever existed to the left. The 18th-century framing is of good quality for its period.
Local climate
St Marys House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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